From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacsclient -t inside Emacs terminal Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <19341.34917.56410.142871@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267646958 22963 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2010 20:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 21:09:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmusb-0002rz-Ft for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:09:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmusa-0007Iq-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:09:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmuj4-00052K-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60401 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmuj3-00051Z-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmuj2-00085h-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50606) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmuj1-00083P-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:19 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmuiz-0007sf-Ql; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:17 -0500 X-Spook: Centro csim NASA cryptanalysis Verisign AFSPC Aldergrove X-Ran: 1x{#a=`iTC6gETtOH;F\~[)-NkW}[faW^O0.&o/jLB,!r9{^c_9$VMoBoA%c)Lm_9F.p>I X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <19341.34917.56410.142871@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Tue\, 2 Mar 2010 22\:51\:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121619 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller wrote: > emacsclient.c contains a test for TERM being equal to "eterm" and > refuses to open a frame in this case. I wonder what is the purpose of > this? >From admin/notes/multi-tty emacsclient -t from an Emacs term buffer does not work, complains about face problems. This can even lock up Emacs (if the recursive frame sets single_kboard). Update: the face problems are caused by bugs in term.el, not in multi-tty. The lockup is caused by single_kboard mode, and is not easily resolvable. The best thing to do is to simply refuse to create a tty frame of type `eterm'. (Fixed, changed emacsclient to check for TERM=eterm. The face complaints seem to be caused by bugs in term.el; they are not related to multi-tty.)